Cochran County v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 1992 · most notably Southwest Airlines Co. v. Texas International Airlines, Inc. (1977), Gardner v. Martin (1961)
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hovey v. Shepherd · Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway Co. v. City of Sweetwater · Long v. Martin · Crane v. Blum · Allen v. Thomson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true that in attacking the election and the bonds in the Caldwell Case [Caldwell et al. v. Crosser et al., Tex.Civ.App., 20 S.W.2d 822 ] the question of the validity of the- bonds, because notice of the election had not been published in accordance with the provisions of Revised Statutes, art. 28, was not specifically raised, but Judge Jackson held that the bonds had been validated by the act of the Legislature, cited in the opinion, which we think is conclusive of all contentions which might be urged here, touching the regularity of the election proceedings. Moreover, that judgment is conclusive of all issues which might and should have been urged in that case. What this court said in the case of Montgomery v. Huff, supra [Tex.Civ. App., 11 S.W .2d 237], quoting from the case of Crane v. L. & H. Blum, 56 Tex. 325 , to the effect that the good of society, the preservation of rights and good order, require that when the rights of parties have once been determined by the ultimate tribunal provided by law, the same should pass from the field of strife forever, is peculiarly applicable to this case. The general rule is that, in the absence of fraud or collusion, a judgment for or against a county or other municipality is binding and conclusive upon all residents, citizens, and taxpayers, in respect to the matters adjudicated which are of general and public interest, and that all other citizens and taxpayers similarly situated are virtually represented in the litigation and”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.